GRAHAM GOOCH

London: The shake-up at the top of English cricket continued on Friday when Colin Graves was nominated for chairman of the England and Wales Cricket Board.
Graves, who is the chairman of county Yorkshire, is set to be elected unopposed for the biggest job in the English game as no other...

London: Mark Ramprakash is set to be appointed as England batting coach this week, according to media reports on Monday. Ramprakash, 45, has been tipped to be Graham Gooch's successor after the former England opener was axed earlier this year.
It is believed Ramprakash and the England and Wales Cricket Board...

London: Former England captain Graham Gooch has rubbished Kevin Pietersen's views in his controversial autobiography about former coach Andy Flower and wicketkeeper Matt Prior and also urged England players led by Alastair Cook to break their silence on the issue in a broader manner.
"Kevin Pietersen is entitled to have his...

London: England batsman Ian Bell has hailed former batting coach Graham Gooch for laying the foundations for his stylish 167run knock against India in the third Test.
Bell had gone 20 Test innings without a century prior to last week's match at Southampton and he has revealed that a oneonone session...

Alastair Cook said he'd made one of the hardest telephone calls of his career to tell boyhood hero Graham Gooch he was no longer needed by England. Cook, the England captain, was mentored through the ranks at Essex by Gooch, one of the county's greatest players and England's record Test...

England recalled leading oneday international wickettaker James Anderson for their 13man squad to face Scotland next week, while batsman Joe Root returned from injury.
Pace bowler Anderson has not played ODI cricket since June, when he broke the England wickettaking record in the format, taking his 235th against Australia in the...

Graham Gooch has been sacked as England's batting coach with immediate effect, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said on Thursday, as the fallout from the Ashes drubbing continued.
The former England captain joined the team as a consultant batting coach in late 2009 before taking up a fulltime role...

London: Alastair Cook should continue to captain England despite their recent run of hapless performances, batting coach Graham Gooch said on Wednesday. As the fallout from England's Ashes debacle rumbles on, with leading batsman Kevin Pietersen the latest casualty of a horrific tour, Cook's position as captain has come under...

Sydney: England batting coach Graham Gooch gave a grim assessment of England's performance this Ashes series after yet another top order collapse on the second day of the fourth Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground brought the tourists to the brink of a 50 series whitewash.
England slumped to 23 for...

Adelaide: England batting coach Graham Gooch on Monday said anyone in the team getting sledged by Australia should take it as a compliment. The first Test in Brisbane, which Australia won by 381 runs, was tarnished by constant sledging as frustrations boiled over, culminating in skipper Michael Clarke being caught...

Batting coach Graham Gooch defended England's go-slow tactics in the fifth and final Test as Australia's James Faulkner warned the return Ashes 'Down Under' later this year would be "played on our terms".
England, who've already retained the Ashes, were all but assured of a 3-0 series win after Saturday's...

London: Batting coach Graham Gooch urged England's top order to make the most of sound starts after all the side's specialist batsmen failed to do just that on the first day of their Ashes warmup against Essex.
England finished the opening day of four...

Four times in their 602ODI history have England ever reached the final of an ICC tournament. Four times. June 23, 1979. November 8, 1987. March 25, 1992. September 25, 2004. Three World Cup finals and one Champions Trophy final. Not once have they come up on top in those encounters....

Auckland: England's minds would not turn to their backtoback Ashes series against Australia as they enter the final day of their New Zealand tour on Tuesday still needing to bat out 90 overs to save the third test and series, batting coach Graham Gooch said.
The visitors were reduced to...

Graham Gooch has stepped down as batting coach for England's oneday and Twenty20 teams and will focus exclusively on the Test side, the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) said in a statement on Sunday.
Graham Thorpe, like Gooch one of England's most successful batsman of the past 25 years, takes...

"Who writes your script?" Graham Gooch once asked about Ian Botham in 1986. Cut to 2012, and the eternal scriptwriter has so nearly written another incredible one. Nearly a year after being diagnosed with a rare germ cell cancer, Yuvraj Singh returned to international cricket with a performance that made...

London: Alastair Cook drew level with his mentor Graham Gooch by hitting his 20th Test century, giving England the edge on the first day of the first Test match against South Africa at the Oval on Thursday. Cook made 114 not out as England overcame the loss of captain Andrew...

London: England batting coach Graham Gooch is confident Alastair Cook's side won't take things easy against Australia in the fifth and final oneday international at Old Trafford here on Tuesday.
England, at 30 up, have already won this series and are on a run of nine successive wins in oneday internationals.
Although...

Birmingham: England great Graham Gooch has backed Jonathan Bairstow to become a "successful Test player" after some early struggles against aggressive fast bowling.
Yorkshire batsman Bairstow, 22, who has played just two Tests, looked uncomfortable against the short ball last time out on national duty as West Indies quick Kemar Roach...

Birmingham: England batting coach Graham Gooch insisted he was excited by trying to replace Kevin Pietersen in the oneday side even though he said they'd miss the "great entertainer". Pietersen quit all limited overs internationals last week after being told his England contract prevented him from just concentrating on Twenty20s...

Galle: Oppressive heat and humidity will present a major problem for England in the first of two cricket Tests against Sri Lanka starting in Galle on Monday.
"These are unnatural conditions for English players, we don't get this kind of heat," England batting coach Graham Gooch told reporters.
"It's different to...

London: England's batting coach and former captain Graham Gooch has asked the ICC to take some serious measures to cleanse the sport from the menace of matchfixing.
Reacting to the latest revelations of corruption in cricket, the former cricketer said the game's governing body "needs to set its house in order".
"It's...

London: England have appointed former Test captain Graham Gooch as fulltime batting coach after two years as a consultant.
The England and Wales Cricket Board says the 58yearold Gooch will begin March 5 in the buildup for a twoTest series in Sri Lanka starting three weeks later.
Gooch will work alongside Graham...

Dubai: England's batting coach Graham Gooch played down the hype over Pakistani spinner Saeed Ajmal's mystery delivery he wants to unveil in the threeTest series, saying it will be a good challenge.
"He (Ajmal) is the top wickettaker of 2011 in Test cricket, so it's going to be a good...